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All the Guns on a T-62 Tank (with Nicholas Moran, the Chieftain)

August 6, 2021 Ian McCollum 19

Try out World of Tanks with a special bonus tank using this link! https://tanks.ly/3dqGoBL Today Nicholas Moran (the Chieftain) and I are at Battlefield Vegas courtesy of Wargaming.net, to show you around a Soviet T-62 […]

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Researcher Profile: Miles Vining and Silah Report

July 23, 2019 Ian McCollum 8

Today I am chatting with Miles Vining, co-creator of Silah Report, a blog and intelligence network researching firearms in MENA – the Middle East and North Africa. Miles and his colleagues have created an organization […]

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Book Review: Desert Sniper, by Ed Nash

October 30, 2018 Ian McCollum 9

“Desert Sniper” is an autobiographical account of Ed Nash’s time fighting as a volunteer with Kurdish forces against ISIS in Syria in 2015 and 2016. Nash had been working as a volunteer with the Free […]

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Anti-Tank Rifles

Kurdish Zagros and Şer Anti-Materiel Rifles

October 4, 2017 Ian McCollum 27

Thanks to correspondent Ed Nash (he gave me permission to use his name after I had recorded the video), I have a number of really interesting photos and video clips of YPG (Kurdish) locally-produced anti-materiel […]

Select-fire Rifles

The StG-44 in Africa

May 22, 2016 Ian McCollum 34

A while back, a video made the rounds of a cache of StG-44 rifles being found in (allegedly) Syria – I commented on it here, in fact. It was pretty much without any context, though. […]

Syrian rebel using an iPad to measure mortar angle
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Old Tech, New Tech (Syria)

January 17, 2014 Ian McCollum 48

Is there a computer-using gunnie anywhere who has not dreamed of doing this? Yep, an old German StG-44 mounted on a set of servomotors to allow remote control movement. Complete with firing solenoid and a […]

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Select-fire Rifles

Syrian Sturmgewehr Cache

August 11, 2012 Ian McCollum 26

Allah ackbar indeed! Why can’t I ever find a storeroom full of Sturmgewehrs? If anyone reading this has contacts in Syria,you might consider recommending that they try to exchange them on some international market for […]

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